ON a small island in the Forth of Clyde a little girl lay dying. Her parents were both converted, and had often spoken to their beloved child about the Lord Jesus Christ, and the things of eternity. As the chance of her recovery, according to human reckoning, grew less and less, these “little talks,” no doubt, would both increase in frequency, and deepen in interest. One day the loving mother was speaking to her about finding herself, ere long, in the presence of the Lord Jesus, when suddenly she inquired, “But who’ll introduce me, mother?”
This would have been a very important question, no doubt, had she been going to meet one of the great ones of this world, but not so in going into the presence of Jesus. To know herself as a sinner, needing His precious blood to cleanse her, was a sufficient introduction to Him in this world; and to know Him as the Savior who had washed her from those sins was sufficient to make her at home with Him in the next.
Reader, your first real having to do with the Lord Jesus will be in connection with your sins, and their righteous due according to God’s holy claims. If as a poor, self-condemned, repentant sinner you are brought to Him in “the day of salvation,” all your sins will be forgiven and forgotten; for He Himself has “once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.” But if you are raised in your sins at “the day of judgment,” you will surely have to say to Him about them, and that according to the same righteous standard. “Every one of us shall give account of himself to God” (Rom. 14:1212So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God. (Romans 14:12)).
Your sins, therefore, will either introduce you to the Savior now, or to the Judge then. Which?
In the day of grace you need no other introduction; in the day of judgment you will get no other. Consider well how soon the one will be passed and the other reached.